"to its multiple propagation mechanisms. It grows on grassy places, dry hills, meadows, in deciduous and pine forests, woods, fields and roadsides, along railway lines and hedgerows, preferably in partial shade, in dry to moist sites and on clay soils, relatively rich in nitrogen, at an altitude of above sea level. It also occurs in cultivated fields as a weed. ""Campanula rapunculoides"" (also known in Calgary as Creeping Bellflower, Rover Bellflower, Garden Bluebell, Creeping Bluebell, Purple Bell, Garden Harebell, Creeping Campanula and even the evil twin) is listed under invasive plants to avoid in Calgary, Alberta by the City of"
"it is not closely related to the true bluebells), and the southern European ""Campanula medium"", commonly known as Canterbury bells (a popular garden plant in the United Kingdom). As well as several species occurring naturally in the wild in northern Europe, there are many cultivated garden species. The cultivars 'Misty Dawn' and 'Kent Belle' have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. The species ""Campanula rapunculus"", commonly known as rampion bellflower, rampion, or rover bellflower, is a biennial vegetable which was once widely grown in Europe for its spinach-like leaves and radish-like roots. The Brothers Grimm's tale Rapunzel"
"The specific epithet is derived from the Latin: ""fusiformis, -e"": shaped like a spindle, that is, swollen in the middle and tapering at each end, and refers to the shape of the fruits. Billardiera fusiformis Billardiera fusiformis (Australian bluebell) is a species of plant in the family, Pittosporaceae, which is endemic to Western Australia. ""B. fusiformis"" is a sturdy climber, which flowers from November to February with blue, white or pink flowers. It is found in coastal areas, and disturbed areas. It is a long-lived climbing plant which is rarely bushy in habit. New stems are greenish in colour and"
"is an anthocyanin, a type of plant pigments, found in the blue flowers in the genus ""Campanula"". Campanula Campanula () is one of several genera in the family Campanulaceae with the common name bellflower. It takes both its common and its scientific name from its bell-shaped flowers—""campanula"" is Latin for ""little bell"". The genus includes over 500 species and several subspecies, distributed across the temperate and subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the highest diversity in the Mediterranean region east to the Caucasus. The range also extends into mountains in tropical regions of Asia and Africa. The species include"
"provide them with protection against insects and animals. Certain extracts – water-soluble alkaloids – are similar to compounds tested for use in combating HIV and cancer. The bulbs of bluebells are used in folk medicine as a remedy for leucorrhoea, and as a diuretic or styptic, while the sap can be used as an adhesive. The bluebell may be regarded as the United Kingdom's ""favourite flower"". When the wild plant charity Plantlife organised a survey in 2004 to find a favourite flower for each county in the United Kingdom, it decided to ban voters from choosing the bluebell because it"
"Campanula trachelium Campanula trachelium or nettle-leaved bellflower is a species of bellflower. It is a Eurasian blue wildflower native to Denmark and England and now naturalized in southeast Ireland. It is also found southward through much of Europe into Africa. The alternate name ""throatwort"" is derived from an old belief that ""C. trachelium"" is a cure for sore throat, and the species name ""trachelium"" refers to its use as treatment of the throat in folk medicine. Other folknames include Our Lady's Bells because the color blue was identified with the Virgin Mary's scarf, veil, or shawl; Coventry Bells because ""C."
"Society's Award of Garden Merit in 2013. Billardiera heterophylla Billardiera heterophylla (formerly ""Sollya heterophylla"") is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae, known by the common name bluebell creeper. It is native to Western Australia, but is grown as an ornamental plant in appropriate climates worldwide. It can sometimes be found growing in the wild as an introduced species or garden escapee, for example in other Australian states and in California, where it is popular in landscaping. It is sometimes considered a weed. It is a climbing shrub with vine-like branches that twine around other plants for support."
"Calendula officinalis Calendula officinalis, the pot marigold, ruddles, common marigold or Scotch marigold, is a plant in the genus ""Calendula"" of the family Asteraceae. It is probably native to southern Europe, though its long history of cultivation makes its precise origin unknown, and it may possibly be of garden origin. It is also widely naturalised further north in Europe (as far as southern England) and elsewhere in warm temperate regions of the world. The Latin specific epithet ""officinalis"" refers to the plant’s medical and herbal uses. ""Calendula officinalis"" is a short-lived aromatic herbaceous perennial, growing to tall, with sparsely branched"
"Campanula medium Campanula medium, common name Canterbury bells, also known as the bell flower, is an annual or biennial flowering plant of the genus ""Campanula"", belonging to the family Campanulaceae. In floriography, it represents gratitude, or faith and constancy. The genus Latin name (“campanula”), meaning small bell, refers to the bell-shape of the flower, while the specific epithet (“medium”) means that this plant has intermediate characteristics in respect of other species of the same genus. In Persian, it is called گل استکانی (Gol-e Estekani) meaning ""Glass flower"", which refers to its glass shape. ""Campanula medium"" reaches approximately in height. This"
"been severe outbreaks in Staffordshire, England. Bilberry Bilberries are a primarily Eurasian species of low-growing shrubs in the genus ""Vaccinium"" (family Ericaceae), bearing edible, dark blue berries. The species most often referred to is ""Vaccinium myrtillus"" L., but there are several other closely related species. The name ""bilberry"" appears to have a Scandinavian origin, possibly from as early as 1577, being similar to the Danish word ""bølle"" for whortleberry with the addition of ""berry"". The bilberry (especially ""Vaccinium myrtillus"") is also known by a number of other names including ""blaeberry"" in Scotland, ""whortleberry"" in southern England, and ""w(h)imberry"" or ""w(h)inberry"""
"boiled by the locals too. Some species are cultivated as ornamental plants in gardens. As regards other aspects of popular culture, cornflower (""C. cyanus"") is the floral emblem of Östergötland province (Sweden) – where is it called ""blåklint"", literally ""blue mountain"" – and of Päijänne Tavastia region in Finland, where it is known as ""ruiskaunokki"" (""rye-beaks"") or ""ruiskukka"" (""rye-flower""). It is also the national flower of Estonia where its local name ""rukkilill"" means ""rye-lily"", Belarus where it is called ""vałoška"" (), and one of those of Germany where it is called ""Kornblume"" (""cornflower""). The origin of the name ""caltrop"" for"
"Billardiera heterophylla Billardiera heterophylla (formerly ""Sollya heterophylla"") is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae, known by the common name bluebell creeper. It is native to Western Australia, but is grown as an ornamental plant in appropriate climates worldwide. It can sometimes be found growing in the wild as an introduced species or garden escapee, for example in other Australian states and in California, where it is popular in landscaping. It is sometimes considered a weed. It is a climbing shrub with vine-like branches that twine around other plants for support. The leaves are a glossy green on"
"Bluebell wood A bluebell wood is a woodland that in springtime has a carpet of flowering bluebells (""Hyacinthoides non-scripta"") underneath a newly forming leaf canopy. The thicker the summer canopy, the more the competitive ground-cover is suppressed, encouraging a dense carpet of bluebells, whose leaves mature and die down by early summer. Other common woodland plants which accompany bluebells include the yellow rattle and the wood anemone. Bluebell woods are found in all parts of Great Britain and Ireland, as well as elsewhere in Europe. Bluebells are a common indicator species for ancient woodlands, so bluebell woods are likely to"
"five sepals which are fused, erect and hairy, and the five violet (or occasionally white) petals are fused into a bell that is hairy inside. There are five stamens and a pistil formed from three fused carpels. The fruit is a hairy, nodding capsule. ""Campanula trachelium"" likes humus-rich soil and is found in broad-leaved woodlands, coppices, hedgerows and the margins of forests. Campanula trachelium Campanula trachelium or nettle-leaved bellflower is a species of bellflower. It is a Eurasian blue wildflower native to Denmark and England and now naturalized in southeast Ireland. It is also found southward through much of Europe"
"that it signified ""a petty proprietor"", or member of the low-ranking gentry, who adopted ""the dress, along with the habits, of a yeoman"". Owing to the flower's resemblance to the cap, the wildflower ""Succisa pratensis"" was often called the ""blue bonnet"" in Scotland. By extension the name was also applied to the garden flower ""Centaurea montana"". The blue tit was also called the ""blue bonnet"" or ""blue bannet"" in parts of Scotland, with the equivalent name ""blue cap"" being used in northern England. Blue bonnet (hat) The blue bonnet was a type of soft woollen hat that for several hundred"
"Phacelia campanularia Phacelia campanularia is a species of flowering plant in the borage family, Boraginaceae, known by the common names desertbells, desert bluebells, California-bluebell, desert scorpionweed, and desert Canterbury bells. Its true native range is within the borders of California, in the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts, but it is commonly cultivated as an ornamental plant and it can be found growing elsewhere as an introduced species. This annual herb has an erect stem reaching in maximum height. It is covered in glandular hairs. The leaf blades are somewhat rounded with toothed edges. The inflorescence is a loose cyme of flowers."
"Wahlenbergia gloriosa Wahlenbergia gloriosa, commonly known as royal bluebell or royal bluebird, is an Australian wildflower from the Campanulaceae family. It grows in high rainfall areas in the Australian Alps, in environs ranging from shady roadside cuttings on Mount Hotham to full sun herbfields on the main range. ""W. gloriosa"" has small dark green leaves in rosettes, to 2 cm. The flowers are a deep blue/purple colour, and are very eyecatching. The colour is not reproducible on a computer screen or normal film (being a shade of violet, rather than purple). It grows as a suckering herb. The flower is"
"to nearly white, and measure up to 2.5 centimeters long. Mertensia longiflora Mertensia longiflora is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common names small bluebells and long bluebells. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to Montana, where it grows in several types of habitat. It is a perennial herb producing an erect stem from a branching caudex, approaching 40 centimeters in maximum height. There are a few oval to lance-shaped leaves. The inflorescence is a dense, often crowded cluster of hanging tubular flowers with expanded, bell-like mouths. They"
"the upper surface, and long, wide. The inflorescence is a single hanging flower or a hanging group of up to five flowers. The flower has five petals up to 1 cm long which may be white to deep blue or pinkish in color. The fruit is a berry up to long with pulpy flesh and many seeds. The purplish-green, cylindrical, sausage-shaped fruits (up to in length) are initially densely hairy, but become smooth as they ripen. The bluebell creeper was first described by English botanist John Lindley in 1831 as ""Sollya heterophylla"", and was reassigned to the genus, ""Billardiera"" by"
"Campanula Campanula () is one of several genera in the family Campanulaceae with the common name bellflower. It takes both its common and its scientific name from its bell-shaped flowers—""campanula"" is Latin for ""little bell"". The genus includes over 500 species and several subspecies, distributed across the temperate and subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the highest diversity in the Mediterranean region east to the Caucasus. The range also extends into mountains in tropical regions of Asia and Africa. The species include annual, biennial and perennial plants, and vary in habit from dwarf arctic and alpine species under 5"
"Mertensia virginica Mertensia virginica (common names Virginia bluebells, Virginia cowslip, lungwort oysterleaf, Roanoke bells) is a spring ephemeral plant with bell-shaped sky-blue flowers, native to eastern North America. Virginia bluebells have rounded and gray-green leaves, borne on stems up to tall. They are petiolate at the bottom of the flower stem and sessile at the top. Flowerbuds are pink. Flowers have five petals fused into a tube, five stamens, and a central pistil (carpel). They are borne in mid-spring in nodding spiral-shaped cymes at the end of arched stems. Flowers are usually blue, but white or pink flowers occur rarely."
"Campanula rapunculus Campanula rapunculus, common name rampion bellflower, rampion, or rover bellflower, is a species of bellflower (""Campanula"") in the family Campanulaceae. This species was once widely grown in Europe for its leaves, which were used like spinach, and its parsnip-like root, which was used like a radish. The Brothers Grimm's tale Rapunzel took its name from this plant. The genus Latin name (""""campanula""""), meaning small bell, refers to the bell-shape of the flower, while the specific name (""""rapunculus"""") is a diminutive of the Latin """"rapa"""" (turnip) and means 'little turnip', which refers to the shape of the root. This"
"as well as the mountains of Scandinavia, Iceland, the Alps, Carpathian Mountains, Balkans, Caucasus and in isolated locations elsewhere. In Great Britain it occurs in the Pennines (northern England), at two locations in Snowdonia (north Wales), and more widely in the Scottish Highlands; in Ireland it occurs on The Burren and a few other sites. In North America it is found in Alaska, most frequently on previously glaciated terrain, and through the Canadian rockies reaching as far south as Colorado in the Rocky Mountains. As a floral emblem, it is the official territorial flower of the Northwest Territories and the"
"Mertensia paniculata Mertensia paniculata, also known as the tall lungwort, tall bluebells, or northern bluebells, is an herb or dwarf shrub with drooping bright-blue, bell-shaped flowers. It is native to northwestern North America and the Great Lakes. ""Mertensia paniculata"" naturally occurs in the temperate zone of North America, and is known to thrive within the boreal forests. Specifically, the northern bluebell can be found in Canada, including southern British Columbia. Within the United States, the plant can be seen in Alaska, as well as the Olympic Mountains, stretching east through Oregon to Idaho and western Montana. According to the PLANTS"
"Mertensia longiflora Mertensia longiflora is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common names small bluebells and long bluebells. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to Montana, where it grows in several types of habitat. It is a perennial herb producing an erect stem from a branching caudex, approaching 40 centimeters in maximum height. There are a few oval to lance-shaped leaves. The inflorescence is a dense, often crowded cluster of hanging tubular flowers with expanded, bell-like mouths. They are generally bright blue, but may be lavender to pinkish"
"is also cultivated as a garden plant, and several named cultivars exist with flowers in various shades of white, pink and blue. Hyacinthoides hispanica Hyacinthoides hispanica (syn. ""Endymion hispanicus"" or ""Scilla hispanica""), the Spanish bluebell, is a spring-flowering bulbous perennial native to the Iberian Peninsula. It is one of around 11 species in the genus ""Hyacinthoides"", others including the common bluebell (""Hyacinthoides non-scripta"") in northwestern Europe, and the Italian bluebell (""Hyacinthoides italica"") further east in the Mediterranean region. It is distinguished from the common bluebell by its paler and larger blue flowers, which are less pendulous and not all drooping"
"are distributed around the Mediterranean Basin, with only one species, ""Hyacinthoides non-scripta"" (the familiar spring flower of bluebell woods in the British Isles and elsewhere) occurring further north in north-western Europe. ""Hyacinthoides"" species belong, according to analysis using molecular phylogenetics, to three groups. Hyacinthoides Hyacinthoides is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, known as bluebells. ""Hyacinthoides"" is classified in the subfamily Scilloideae (now part of the family Asparagaceae, but formerly treated as a separate family, called Hyacinthaceae), alongside genera such as ""Scilla"", ""Chionodoxa"" and ""Ornithogalum"". ""Hyacinthoides"" is differentiated from these other genera by the presence of two"
"Cayzer, Crisp and Telford in 2004. The specific epithet ""heterophylla"" means ""with various or diverse leaves"". Common names include Australian bluebell and climbing bluebell. Within the genus, it is closely related to two other Western Australian species - ""B. fusiformis"" and ""B. drummondii"". ""Billardiera heterophylla"" is native to the Avon and Eyre districts of southwest Western Australia, where it occurs in open eucalypt forest and woodland and as well as coastal heathland and near salt lakes inland. It is adept at colonising disturbed sites. Its cultivation and propensity to spread have resulted in range increase and difficulties in determining original"
"of the plant could be made into an herbal tea to stimulate the respiratory system. Mertensia paniculata Mertensia paniculata, also known as the tall lungwort, tall bluebells, or northern bluebells, is an herb or dwarf shrub with drooping bright-blue, bell-shaped flowers. It is native to northwestern North America and the Great Lakes. ""Mertensia paniculata"" naturally occurs in the temperate zone of North America, and is known to thrive within the boreal forests. Specifically, the northern bluebell can be found in Canada, including southern British Columbia. Within the United States, the plant can be seen in Alaska, as well as the"
"forests at an elevation up to above sea level. Hyacinthoides italica Hyacinthoides italica, the Italian bluebell or Italian squill, is a spring-flowering bulbous perennial plant belonging to the family Asparagaceae. It is one of around 11 species in the genus ""Hyacinthoides"", others including the common bluebell (""Hyacinthoides non-scripta"") in northwestern Europe, and the Spanish bluebell (""Hyacinthoides hispanica"") further west in the Iberian Peninsula. ""Hyacinthoides italica"" is up to tall. The stem is leafless. It has 3-6 basal lance-shaped leaves, wide and long. The inflorescence is a dense, conical or pyramid-like raceme with 5-30 bright violet-blue star-like flowers. The flowers have"
"the floral emblem of the Australian Capital Territory. Wahlenbergias are generally easily propagated by division or root cutting. Wahlenbergia gloriosa Wahlenbergia gloriosa, commonly known as royal bluebell or royal bluebird, is an Australian wildflower from the Campanulaceae family. It grows in high rainfall areas in the Australian Alps, in environs ranging from shady roadside cuttings on Mount Hotham to full sun herbfields on the main range. ""W. gloriosa"" has small dark green leaves in rosettes, to 2 cm. The flowers are a deep blue/purple colour, and are very eyecatching. The colour is not reproducible on a computer screen or normal"
"Billardiera fusiformis Billardiera fusiformis (Australian bluebell) is a species of plant in the family, Pittosporaceae, which is endemic to Western Australia. ""B. fusiformis"" is a sturdy climber, which flowers from November to February with blue, white or pink flowers. It is found in coastal areas, and disturbed areas. It is a long-lived climbing plant which is rarely bushy in habit. New stems are greenish in colour and densely hairy, while older stems are reddish brown. The long leaves are almost stalkless, have entire margins and are softly hairy. The nodding blue flowers occur in small clusters at the branch tips."
"pink, magenta (""red""), pale to dark blue, and purple, often with a prominent white eye. Some of the better known cultivars include 'Blue Moon', 'Gracilis', 'Crystal Palace', 'Sapphire', 'Rosamund' and 'Riviera Rose'. In the United Kingdom the following cultivars have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit: Lobelia erinus Lobelia erinus (edging lobelia, garden lobelia or trailing lobelia) is a species of flowering plant in the bellflower family Campanulaceae, native to southern Africa, from Malawi and Namibia south to South Africa. It is a prostrate or scrambling herbaceous perennial plant growing to 8–15 cm tall. The basal leaves"